ISS live cam - what a time to be alive

[Red Squirrel]

This may be old news, but the idea of being able to see a live view of the Earth from a SPACE STATION we put in space, is just incredible. I was just checking this earlier during my night shift as I had totally forgot about it, it's awesome when there are sun sets/sun rises.

I wonder how hard it would be to set this up in a surveillance camera system, if something crazy happens it would get recorded. I imagine there are probably plenty of recordings already, that was probably NASA's original idea behind it, as if some weird phenomenon happens they can have some footage to study.

I still want to try to capture it with my zoom lens, but that would be ridiculously hard to do given how fast it moves. Could maybe get lucky and do it by hand with super high ISO setting though.

 

[Captante]

Link for the lazy?

 

[ForumMaster]

Link for the lazy?

from OP's screenshot:

http://www.n2yo.com/space-station/

 

[arcenite]

it's awesome when there are sun sets/sun rises.

:hmm: Something I had never really thought about before -- the sun is always rising somewhere and setting somewhere else. Hmph.

 

[postmortemIA]

I'd be more awesome if it didn't use Flash

 

[Kaido]

from OP's screenshot:

http://www.n2yo.com/space-station/

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaawesome :thumbsup:

 

[olds]

Cam in because I misread the title as "ISIS". Left disappointed.

 

[core2slow]

Now if only they had shown all the UFOs live feed that wasn't broadcasted...

 

[Spacehead]

I imagine there are probably plenty of recordings already, that was probably NASA's original idea behind it, as if some weird phenomenon happens they can have some footage to study.

I know there are sprite & jet photos/vids taken from the ISS. Probably other things too.

Another link for ISS live streams.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-iss-stream

 

[Sonikku]

boooooo flash

 

[JTsyo]

it's awesome when there are sun sets/sun rises.

So once every 90 min?

 

[brianmanahan]

Cam in because I misread the title as "ISIS". Left disappointed.

you're thinking of daesh

 

[Spacehead]

So once every 90 min?

RE: sunset/sunrise
About every 45 minutes. It only takes ~90 minutes to orbit the Earth.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'd be more awesome if it didn't use Flash

Yeah I find after about 5 minutes I need to run xkill on my browser as it just locks the whole browser right up. A while ago I had to pull the battery out of the laptop and unplug it because it just locked up the whole machine. Freaking hate flash... but I find html5 is just as bad in some cases. The html5 viewer for youtube for example is horrible. It glitches all the time and locks up the browser. Ended up switching back to the flash one.

Somebody really needs to come up with a proper non proprietary web standard for video/multimedia.

But if you put it up and don't touch it after it seems to play fine. It's only when you try to change tabs that all hell breaks loose.